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AI keeps the rally alive as yields and oil press higher
Stocks finished the week higher as AI enthusiasm outweighed a 10-year Treasury yield near its highest since 2007 and Brent crude above $100. The rally is narrow, though: nine of the 11 S&P 500 sectors are down for September.
Daily closes, Sept. 21–25, 2026. Source: Yahoo Finance and AP.
Reporting cutoff: U.S. market close, Friday, September 25, 2026. This is a dated snapshot, not a live market update.
Three forces shaping the week
AI is still carrying the market
Microsoft’s Copilot revamp, Akamai’s $11.6 billion Anthropic deal, Meta’s Muse rally and AMD’s brief $1 trillion milestone kept AI leadership intact.
Yields and oil keep the pressure on
The 10-year yield touched 5.22% and Brent held above $100, while futures priced about a two-in-three chance of another Fed hike in October.
A narrow rally
Nine of 11 sectors are negative in September and the equal-weight S&P 500 is down about 4%, so the indexes look healthier than the average stock.
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Beyond Tech · Weekly column · September 25, 2026
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“The bigger technological shift wasn’t AI learning to answer our questions. It was AI learning to take responsibility for the next step.”
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